You and me, we have Wikipedia. Radiologists, they have Radiopaedia. If you can get past the clinical language, you can see it for what it really is: An amazing cache of images that show the human body at its extreme limits. And a place to find (and share!) x-rays of weird stuff people have put up their butts. »2/04/15 7:40pm 2/04/15 7:40pm

During an otherwise routine restoration, researchers at Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (NIAH) made an unprecedented discovery. As it turns out, the 18th century statue of Christ they'd been X-raying was fitted with actual, 100% human pearly whites—totally intact all the way to the roots. »8/12/14 12:00pm 8/12/14 12:00pm

To get a super-detailed X-ray view inside a cell—right down to the individual molecules—scientists dunk the cell they're looking at in preservative chemicals. That not only kills the cell, it changes its internal structure ever so slightly, meaning researchers aren't getting an exact look at the cell's natural state.… »2/27/14 7:30pm 2/27/14 7:30pm

They say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but when it comes to an underwater pipeline carrying oil or natural gas, staying ahead of leaks can actually help prevent a billion dollar cleanup. So researchers at GE are developing an underwater submersible that uses X-rays to check pipelines for signs of… »2/27/14 4:20pm 2/27/14 4:20pm

Every once and awhile I have to get dressed up for a wedding or something. And it's kind of fun, but it always reminds me that I'm just not fancy on the inside. No matter how decked out I am I'm still a jeans and a tshirt person deep down. But hopefully that's not true of luxury tech products that people spend a lot… »9/08/13 4:40pm 9/08/13 4:40pm

Have you heard about these newfangled X-ray machines? We should put 'em in everything! We should literally use them to X-ray people's feet to fit them for shoes. It sounds like a retro-parody cartoon, but it's not. It's what actually happened in the 1940s. »7/15/13 2:14pm 7/15/13 2:14pm

Any tech that allows humans a new type of insight is inevitably turned on ourselves. We want to know what else we can find out from peering in on our bodies or minds in a new way. Of course, x-ray machines were pretty much used from the start for that purpose, but it's amazing to see these 1908 photos examining how a… »6/23/13 6:11pm 6/23/13 6:11pm

If you ever stared at a chrysalis as a kid, patiently waiting for a beautiful new butterfly to emerge, you were probably left wondering just what was going on inside there. Was the caterpillar reconfiguring itself like a Transformer? Was it morphing like a Terminator? Nobody knows—except now everyone does thanks to… »5/15/13 4:08pm 5/15/13 4:08pm

When most people tackle DIY projects related to airports, it's usually some kind of over-the-top commercial airline simulator. But not Ben Krasnow He took a decidedly different approach by building his own X-ray backscatter machine using various parts found on eBay. »11/28/12 8:41am 11/28/12 8:41am

Ever wonder what it would be like to gaze at the iPhone 5 with superhero-caliber X-ray vision? Wonder no more, because an engineer named Alex Caron has snapped a couple of X-ray images of Apple's newest smartphone. »11/26/12 11:02am 11/26/12 11:02am